The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-26
Comments of the State Press.
1T THINKS GREEN SMITH s'PREsIDES.a


1T THINKS GREEN SMITH s'PREsIDEs.a
Madison Courier.
Those at a distance cannot we'll Judge Of the
difficulties and perplexities which have beset the
Republican members of the General Assembly
in meeting the usurpations and brutality of the
Democratic members. For this reason we do
not feel inclined to censure harshly the compro-
mise by which Green Smith was allowed to pre-
side oyer the joint assembly. The Senate was
invited to come to the House. and they came
There is no law defining who shall preside at the
joint convention, although the presidents have
invariably awarded this privilege to the Lieu
tenant governor. The Democracy should have
yielded here, but they did not. They were AFRO
CANT brutal. and ready to precipitate a bloody
We have confidence in the courage of the
Republican members, and while it is possible
they have made a mistake. they have probably
done as well as mon trying to keep within tha
law and avoid bloodshed could have done
STATE AUDITOR RIcE's HISTORY OF N
Logansport journal.
State Auditor Rice was in the city yesterday.
In conversation with the journal re-
porter at the Panhandle depot, this morning, he
stated that it was his conviction that Turpie
would be elected Senator by Tuesday, at the
furthest. he would have been elected on Sat
urday il Sayre had not arbitrarily declared the
joint convention adjourned" said Mr.. Rice.
Robinson showed signs of weakening. and IL
another ballot had been taken I believe we
would have secured him. AS that compromise
is patched up it is next to impossible to secure
more than one ballot each day, If the Speaker
does not desire it.
WHO got up that COMPROMISED
Senator johnson, of Wayne county, and
Green Smith. They got together and agreed
upon it,
FAIRLY REFLECTED REPUBLICAN, SENTIMENT
Warsaw Times.
The Journal can rely upon it that it has fairly
reflected Republican sentiment throughout the
State In reference to the shameful surrender as
shown by the uncalled-for compromise with the
usurpers in the Legislature The indignation in
the party ranks on the reception Of the news
was very great, and the expression was very
general that the party had either been seduced
from duty by promises of a questionable charac-
ter. or else the threat made by the Democratic
Senators to unseat every Republican in that
body induced some of them to believe they
would Use their little Office Oh for return Of
the old time vigor and spirit of the party.
THE EXPLANATION DOES NOT EXPLAIN.
Seymour Republican.
This explanation" is in no sense
satisfying to the Republicans of the State
They fail to see the virtue or value of s'com-
promise" which gives the opposition the very
ultimate thing asked for, and which ''compro
misses nothing, only the manhood and courage
of Republicans without profting them in the
least. Besides this il is puerile and pusillani-
nous Acknowledgement that Green Smith is the
de facto Lieutenant governor and as such that
he may sit in judgment over the deliberations
of the joint assembly, although he is only
bold usurper, stationed where he is by the
brutal force OF majority vote.
ABREAST OF THE PEOPLES THOUGHT
Seymour Republican,
If our Republican friends who became parties
to the 'scompromise"--of the honor. and dignity
and courage of the >ubcans Of the State
will keep watch over a.-e columns of tho Jour
nal, they will learn that that paper is not alone
| in "denonncing" that base and unnecessary ex-
pedient As the above paper says, unless
newspaper. is In harm with the instinct and
of a ,f ha ~ -
powerless as n That the Journal is
abreast of the sins, land thouchtr of ts party
in this matter there is no question.
THE DEMOCRATS WERE REyoLurIoNIsTs
Rushville Graphic
Every Republican member of the Legislature
who was in favor Of the compromise with Green
Smith and his gang. will be remembered as COM
promising away the rights of the Republican
party. All the acts of the Democratic Senators
were revolutionary and Green Smith usurpor,
and the Republican members would have been
honored by their constituents if they had risen
| up as one body and denounced the acts OF Green
| Smith and his gang in such a manner that no
| motion could have been recognized
QUAKER EXPLANATION
| Lafayette Call.
Senator Dresser communicates card to the
! Courier, defending the Republicans in the Legis-
| lature for making the compromise" the sum
and substance of which is that the Democratic
! Senate had determined to come over to the
| House anyway and If it had not been for the
compromise they would have raised a row,
and it was to avoid the row that the Republicans
| surrendered. This explanation would not be so
surprising had it come from our Quaker friend.
| Job Osborn
WANTS TO HEAR FROM ITS SENATOR.
Elkhart independent
Senator Neon, from Warsaw, desires the
Times OF that city to say that he was in no man.
| ner connected with the compromise, nor even
consulted in regard to it. Now let us hear from